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Massachusetts  Society 

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Promoting  Agriculture 


Miscellaneous  Publications 


1683-1911 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


1.  An  Act,  concerning  contagious  diseases.  1865  J 

2.  Bennett,  Edmund  H. :A  Treatise  on  the  Legal 

Rights  and  Liabilities  of  Farmers.  1884. 

3.  Centennial  Year  of  the  Massachusetts  Society] 

for  Promoting  Agriculture.  1792-1892. 

4.  Dana,  Samuel  L. :An  Essay  on  Manures. 

5.  Des  Gars,  A. :A  Treatise  on  Pruning  Forest 

and  Ornamental  Trees.  1906.  5th  ed. 

6.  Hearing  before  the  Committee  of  Public 

Health  on  Dangers  to  Human  Life  from 
Bacilli  of  Tuberculosis  in  Milk.  1891. 

7.  Infectiousness  of  Milk.  1895. 

8.  The  Law  of  the  Roadside.  1911.  2nd  ed. 

9.  Letter,  concerning  damage  to  shade  and  fruit 

trees  in  this  State  by  leaf -eating 
insects.  1902. 

10.  Massachusetts  Society  for  Promoting 

Agriculture,  Constitution  of.  1894. 

11.  Owen,  James: Address  on  the  Highway  Constric- 

tion in  New  Jersey,  U.  3.  A.  1893. 

12.  Protection  of  tne  Forests  of  the  Common- 

wealth. 1886. 

13.  Results  of  Spraying  Experiments  against 

Caterpillars  of  the  Gipsy  and  Brown- 
tail  Moths.  1905. 

14.  Scudder,  Samuel  H. :The  Pine  Moth  of 

Nantucket.  1883. 


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In  the  Year  One  Thousand  Eight  Hundred  and  Eighty-five. 


AN  ACT 

To    aid    in    the    suppression     of    Contagious    Diseases 
among;  Domestic  Animals. 


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Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
General  Court  assembled,  and.  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  as 
follows : 

1  Section   1.     Whoever  has  knowledge  of  the  ex- 

2  istence  of  a  contagious  disease  among  any  species 

3  of  domestic   animals   in   this  State,  whether  such 

4  knowledge  is   obtained    by  examination  or   other- 

5  wise,  shall   forthwith    give   notice    thereof   to  the 

6  board  of  aldermen  of    the  city,  or  the  selectmen 

7  of    the    town    where    such    diseased    animals   are 

8  kept,  and  for  failure  so  to   do,  shall   be   punished 


2  CONTAGIOUS    DISEASES.               [Mar.  '85. 

9  by  a  fine   not  exceeding  five  hundred   dollars,  or 

10  by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding  one  year. 

1  Sect.  2.     The   board    of    aldermen    of    a    city, 

2  or    the    selectmen    of    a    town,    having    received 

3  notice   of    a    contagious    disease    among    domestic 

4  animals    in    their    city    or    town,    shall    forthwith 

5  inform   the   board  of  cattle   commissioners  of   the 

6  existence  of  such  contagious  disease. 

1  Sect.    3.     Section    three    of    chapter   ninety    of 

2  the  Public   Statutes  is  hereby   amended  so  as   to 

3  read   as  follows  :     They   may   cause    all    such   ani- 

4  mals,    except    those    infected     with    glanders    or 

5  farcy,    to    be    appraised   by    three   competent    and 

6  disinterested  men,  under  oath,  at  the  value  there- 

7  of    at   the    time    of    the    appraisement,    and    the 

8  amount  of  the  appraisement  shall  be  paid  as  pro- 

9  vided  in  section  one ;  and  they  shall  cause  all  ani- 

10  mals  infected  with  glanders  or  farcy  to  be  killed 

11  without  appraisement,  but  may   pay  the  owner  an 

12  equitable  sum  for  the  killing  and  for  any  reason- 

13  able  expense  incurred  by  such  owner  for  the  burial 

14  thereof. 

1  Sect.  4.     The  cattle  commissioners,  in  the  nec- 

2  essary   discharge   of    their   duties,  may   administer 

3  oaths. 

[Approved  April  9.  1885. 


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